Tag Archives: salaries
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12 Baseball Players Who Got a Lot Richer in 2012
In case you hadn’t noticed, 2012 was a pretty good year for elite baseball players. There have been 38 players to sign $100 million contracts in the history of baseball, and 8 of them have done so in the past 12 months. I mean, just think about that. That’s 21% of all $100,000,000 contracts. And [...]
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15 Craziest NHL Contracts
Well, the NHL officially locked out the players over the weekend. Now the entire 2012-13 season is in jeopardy, just 7 years removed from the 2004-05 lockout that cost us an entire season. The great irony here, of course, is that the owners are complaining that they aren’t making enough money and demanding pay cuts [...]
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50 Highest Paid Athletes in the World (2012 Edition)
Professional athletes get paid an obscene amount of money to do what they do. Or at least, they do if they’re good, and if they play the right sport. (Sorry, professional indoor lacrosse players.) But in addition to getting paid to play, many of them also get paid to endorse a variety of products and [...]
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The 9 Highest Paid Female Athletes of 2012
We just wrapped up an Olympics that some people have called “the Women’s Games” because there were more female athletes with considerably higher profiles than ever before. So obviously, with this increase in notoriety, female athletes are making tons of money these days, right? Well, that depends. Compared to you or me, sure, they’re making [...]
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11 Best Agents In Pro Sports
In today’s world, pro athlete salaries are higher today than they ever have been before. And while the first steps toward $100 million contracts were taken years ago by the player unions that fought for free agency, there’s no doubt that, in recent years, players’ agents have been a driving force in the rise of [...]
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15 Highest NBA Salaries For The 2011-12 Season
Now that we’re actually going to have a 2011-12 NBA season, I thought it would be fun to whip up a list of the top player salaries for this year. Why is a list of the NBA’s top salaries so amusing? It has to do with the league’s insanely complicated “soft” salary cap. This system, [...]
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13 Top Salaries From Obscure Pro Sports
Last week, Total Pro Sports brought you a list of the highest athlete salaries in 2011. Not surprisingly, all the top salaries came from only four of the world’s most popular pro sports—boxing, baseball, basketball, and auto racing. But this left me wondering: what about the lesser known pro sports? So, I did a little [...]
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MLB What A Great League…Ya Right
Total Pro Sports – How embarrassing for baseball when a team has to pay a luxury tax in an amount that is greater than the lowest team payroll. The New York Yankees were hit with a luxury tax of $26.9 million today, a figure that exceeds the Florida Marlins team payroll of $21.8 million. If [...]
